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« Reply #36721 on: August 30, 2019, 09:55:55 PM »
First time watching the OG version of Let the Right One In and I just found it funny that the title itself suggests more substance in the film than the condensed version of the domesticated version. Even the stills, scene to scene of the original, are far better than the one most know. It also has way more of a societal bite.
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« Reply #36722 on: August 30, 2019, 10:03:10 PM »
Holy fuck this is dark wtf
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« Reply #36723 on: August 30, 2019, 10:07:02 PM »
Holy fuck this is dark wtf

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I mean, I'm not disturbed but shit. Should have known better I initially watched the sanitized version, Jesus lol
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« Reply #36724 on: August 30, 2019, 10:42:51 PM »
I haven't watched either in a decade but I remember both were equally good and I didn't have a preference. I think the original might have been slightly darker.
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« Reply #36725 on: August 30, 2019, 10:46:22 PM »
It's funny I'm watching the OG from the lens of watching it from the domesticated version and I can percieve the subtle emotional cues imbued in the OG. Where the remake follows the overt overtones as laid by the original. Yet there's a beautiful subtleness to the original that is absolutely stunning by comparison. It's the difference between rote and emotion.
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« Reply #36726 on: August 31, 2019, 09:13:41 AM »
Linklater is now doing a movie that will be shot over TWENTY years, but sadly the bois at RLM won't be able to review and shit on it because they'll have long been dead of liver failure before the movie ever comes out :mike

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« Reply #36727 on: August 31, 2019, 02:07:19 PM »
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« Reply #36728 on: August 31, 2019, 03:09:26 PM »
Todd Phillips directed a gg allin doc. This is his wheelhouse; it’ll be good.
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« Reply #36729 on: August 31, 2019, 04:53:18 PM »
John Wick 3

Wow, what a ride. Halle Barry still got it in those leather pants :whew and on top of that exactly what I wanted from a John Wick action flick.
I would say 1 > 3 > 2 for this series because 1 had the best arc and story. But all 3 are stellar films if you like to watch Keanu kill a bunch of clowns in the most awesome ways.
It looked great too, loved the lighting effects, action shots and more varied locales. Would John Wick again.

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« Reply #36730 on: August 31, 2019, 04:55:30 PM »
haven't jerked it to halle barry in a long time, might have to give jw3 a watch  :-[
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« Reply #36731 on: August 31, 2019, 05:38:27 PM »
Monsters ball tho :lawd
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« Reply #36732 on: August 31, 2019, 05:52:02 PM »
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She has this awesome fighting style where she teams up with her dogs who usually go for the genitals while she shoots the clowns in the head.  8)
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« Reply #36733 on: August 31, 2019, 05:55:32 PM »
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« Reply #36734 on: August 31, 2019, 06:13:55 PM »
I didn't like 3 that much.

The fights felt slower than i remembered the previous movies' being, and the story is getting to be too fucking stupid for its own good (why even go in the desert to become Ezio Auditore? That whole arc was completely pointless).

And too much jarring cgi elements during the fights, too.

I'll give the dogs and the super shotty at the end props though, they saved the movie for me.
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« Reply #36735 on: August 31, 2019, 06:19:14 PM »
I didn't like 3 that much.

The fights felt slower than i remembered the previous movies' being, and the story is getting to be too fucking stupid for its own good (why even go in the desert to become Ezio Auditore? That whole arc was completely pointless).

And too much jarring cgi elements during the fights, too.

I'll give the dogs and the super shotty at the end props though, they saved the movie for me.
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Cruise Missile > Sad Keanu
Those films were indeed great so I say why not both?

Maybe have Keanu as the bad guy in the new MI. Keanu vs. Cruise Missile :lawd

The fights were pretty much the same pace but these went on for longer than usual. Especially the last one.
The nightclub scene in JW1 remains one of my favorite action scenes even if it does borrow heavily from the Collateral  8)
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« Reply #36736 on: August 31, 2019, 06:19:25 PM »
Totally disagree on most of your points. 
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« Reply #36737 on: August 31, 2019, 06:29:26 PM »
I didn't like 3 that much.

The fights felt slower than i remembered the previous movies' being, and the story is getting to be too fucking stupid for its own good (why even go in the desert to become Ezio Auditore? That whole arc was completely pointless).

And too much jarring cgi elements during the fights, too.

I'll give the dogs and the super shotty at the end props though, they saved the movie for me.
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The last two Mission Impossible stay winning as best action movies ever made (in the West).  ::)

Cruise Missile > Sad Keanu
Those films were indeed great so I say why not both?

Maybe have Keanu as the bad guy in the new MI. Keanu vs. Cruise Missile :lawd

The fights were pretty much the same pace but these went on for longer than usual. Especially the last one.
The nightclub scene in JW1 remains one of my favorite action scenes even if it does borrow heavily from the Collateral  8)
No disagreement there, they're still some of the best action movies around, don't get me wrong.

When i mentioned the speed of fights, i'm mostly referring to how fast they go through the choreography.
Usually when stuntmen perform, they have very little dead time between one hit and the next.
For being shot with regular actors though (and Keanu is sort of a special case anyway) they were pretty good, but for example in the Halle Berry fight, you could definitely feel her wait for the next beat, and compared to stuff like Ong Bak or even The Raid, it definitely feels like it's going at a slower BPM.
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« Reply #36738 on: August 31, 2019, 06:36:57 PM »
I didn't like 3 that much.

The fights felt slower than i remembered the previous movies' being, and the story is getting to be too fucking stupid for its own good (why even go in the desert to become Ezio Auditore? That whole arc was completely pointless).

And too much jarring cgi elements during the fights, too.

I'll give the dogs and the super shotty at the end props though, they saved the movie for me.
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The last two Mission Impossible stay winning as best action movies ever made (in the West).  ::)

Cruise Missile > Sad Keanu
Those films were indeed great so I say why not both?

Maybe have Keanu as the bad guy in the new MI. Keanu vs. Cruise Missile :lawd

The fights were pretty much the same pace but these went on for longer than usual. Especially the last one.
The nightclub scene in JW1 remains one of my favorite action scenes even if it does borrow heavily from the Collateral  8)
No disagreement there, they're still some of the best action movies around, don't get me wrong.

When i mentioned the speed of fights, i'm mostly referring to how fast they go through the choreography.
Usually when stuntmen perform, they have very little dead time between one hit and the next.
For being shot with regular actors though (and Keanu is sort of a special case anyway) they were pretty good, but for example in the Halle Berry fight, you could definitely feel her wait for the next beat, and compared to stuff like Ong Bak or even The Raid, it definitely feels like it's going at a slower BPM.
That was also true in the first John Wick film. There's sort of this 'pause' and then BANG. It gives it more weight or something I dunno.
The thing that gave it away in 3 though were some lightning fast sword kills.

In The Raid 1/2 and The Night Comes for Us you only get that with the bosses and even then some were surprisingly offed quickly.
Awesome that 2 guys from the Raid have actually joined the Join Wick universe  8)
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« Reply #36739 on: August 31, 2019, 06:38:33 PM »
do I need to watch wick 1 and 2 before seeing 3? I've seen parts of 1 and nothing from 2  :doge
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« Reply #36740 on: August 31, 2019, 06:46:48 PM »
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« Reply #36741 on: August 31, 2019, 06:57:34 PM »
do I need to watch wick 1 and 2 before seeing 3? I've seen parts of 1 and nothing from 2  :doge
I would recommend watching 1 so you get to know the world and characters. 2, you could skip but why would you, great action film.
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« Reply #36742 on: August 31, 2019, 10:36:50 PM »
Bebpo, you were right. Midsommar blows. Predictable, uninteresting, very skippable affair.
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« Reply #36743 on: August 31, 2019, 10:59:24 PM »
How does it compare to Hereditary? Because i thought that was a very good horror.
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« Reply #36744 on: September 01, 2019, 12:32:06 AM »
I tried watching Hereditary drunk but I passed out twenty minutes in so I'm going to try finishing it tonight and get back to you.
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« Reply #36745 on: September 01, 2019, 12:34:38 AM »
I can't imagine watching either of those films altered. It's like watching a faces of death video with a million dollar budget. I have a low tolerance for body horror.
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« Reply #36746 on: September 01, 2019, 01:57:43 AM »
Watching Last Year at Marienbad tonight, with a chaser of Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels.  :snob
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« Reply #36748 on: September 01, 2019, 04:01:43 AM »
How does it compare to Hereditary? Because i thought that was a very good horror.
Hereditary was maybe a hundred times better. Still shaking. Hail Paimon.
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« Reply #36749 on: September 01, 2019, 05:54:56 AM »
Bebpo, you were right. Midsommar blows. Predictable, uninteresting, very skippable affair.

I haven't watched it yet, but I have heard it splits opinion. One criticism I have heard thrown at it is, very little happens throughout middle section of the film and that goes on for far too long.


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« Reply #36750 on: September 01, 2019, 10:30:36 AM »
Netflix certainly upped their trailers game



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« Reply #36751 on: September 01, 2019, 10:37:56 AM »


Thank God I didn't see this in theaters because I would've been laid the fuck out with death stares all around me :dead

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« Reply #36753 on: September 01, 2019, 11:28:59 AM »
Guess "sexually frustrated" has been discontinued.
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« Reply #36754 on: September 01, 2019, 12:19:39 PM »
Bebpo, you were right. Midsommar blows. Predictable, uninteresting, very skippable affair.

I haven't watched it yet, but I have heard it splits opinion. One criticism I have heard thrown at it is, very little happens throughout middle section of the film and that goes on for far too long.



It's very much a mood piece vs. the ramping tension in Hereditary. I liked Midsommar for the distinct vibe it has over Hereditary but Hereditary takes it if you're going for a pure horror flick. Visually and the scenario in Midsommar make it a worthwhile watch.
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« Reply #36755 on: September 01, 2019, 05:37:30 PM »
Guess "sexually frustrated" has been discontinued.
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« Reply #36756 on: September 01, 2019, 09:23:33 PM »
Watching Abel Ferrara's 'The Addiction' and I fucking love it. It's pretentious in the best way. The sort of pretention that allows you to selfreflect in part and gather something from it. Wrapped in the black and white neo-noir vampire scenario, which is just straight up crack for me. Plus the dialog borders on beautiful at points, although you have to wade through some edgelordy stuff which mirrors the act of writing poetry unfiltered.

There are also some gorgeous cinematic shots along with some great mood. Black and White and blood lust will always be a match made in heaven
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« Reply #36757 on: September 01, 2019, 09:29:16 PM »
Uhhhh has anyone else seen this movie on amazon prime “The Chair To Everywhere”? I clicked on it cuz I was in the mood for zero budget trash and the title screen was a naked chick on a dorky sci-fi chair with lightning zapping around but oh lord it is so much more...

Film opens with a quote from Plato’s The Cave, features stock footage of a galaxy and cheap renders of a woman’s silhouette... cuts to a family home, pans by a older husband/wife and adult daughter photo to a guy trying to teleport a flower between two chairs decked out in gadgets in the living room. Daughter comes home and the two discuss her pending teleportation; she ponders this further on the toilet and dad fiddles with cords while missing the dead wife... daughter is ready, some weird hand holding takes place (more on this)... and she sits in the chair to test it out... unfortunately it burns her nightgown and she has to peel it off so dad can check her back for burns.

:doge

They discuss what went wrong, daughter has her eureka moment (only non-living organic material!)and strips naked for round 2... dad fakes modesty but had no problem zapping the shit out of her for the second test :lol

Test two fails, the cause of which is her dental filling... so her solution is to have dad rip it out there on the spot while straddling her body (still nude on the chair btw)  :lol :lol

Test 3 begins without a hitch, nude daughter seems ok... dad then gets up from the couch to strangle her with a rope to coax the process along... remember the nonliving part  :doge

This is of course very traumatic for pops, but the daughter, now successfully teleported, is pretty chill. To assuage his emotions, daughter cuddles in bed with him... dad protests lightly as he hasn’t been with a woman in years  :doge but they spoon anyway  :doge

I kinda lost the plot from here but she disappears during the next teleport (this time dad kills her via lethal injection to the neck), gets switcheroo’d with a series of other naked chicks (who also get strangled to return back cuz why not). Notably, one chick tries to destroy the machine so naturally dad punches her in the face, sending her unconscious naked body to the chair in slow motion  :lol

Turns out these chicks are future lady soldiers whose teleportation has gotten intercepted by dad... the reason no dudes are coming is because future men are weak and tiny. Dad finally gets desperate, jumps in the seat nude, somehow this brings naked daughter back, they embrace, dad dies while his daughters tits hang over him... to drive home how creepy this is the film cuts to to the past where dad is holding her as an infant.  :doge

End “twist” is of course that some alien cyborg females are running a simulation of the universe, and the “teleportation” was really just an accidental hacking the system causing a reboot... movie ends with a crawl about the simulation hypothesis.. deep stuff on the nature of existence, wrapped in creepy psychosexual incesty love...

I checked this dude’s (Mol Smith) other work and this is prob the next Neil Breen. It’s all weird galaxy brain stuff mixed with tits.

One of a kind filmmaking,

F+/A- :trumps
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« Reply #36758 on: September 01, 2019, 10:44:38 PM »
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/joker-reactions-joaquin-phoenix-reviews-1202170199/

"Incel Origin Story"

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What is the review? I know it's for Joker, but a website review or just some fan review?
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https://radical.town/@DissidentKitty/102714277643835977

I saw The Peanut Butter Falcon. I liked it enough. It's straight up a going for a feel good film vibe. I think the first half is really good. Then we get to a point where it becomes a little too happy go lucky, dreamy. My suspension of disbelief sort of crumbles. A friend of mine mentioned he was surprised it was released already. That he views it as Oscar bait. I kinda balked on that. I think Shia and the Down's Syndrome character have great chemistry that has you rooting for them the whole time, but I would be shocked if this gets any Oscar nod.
You want to get your LeBoooooof on? You want a feel good tale? It's worth a watch.
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« Reply #36759 on: September 01, 2019, 11:48:39 PM »
Watched budget horror flick Swing Low at a film fest. Was the most unfinished feeling film ever seen. It’s about the MC in bandages in a hospital telling an FBI agent her story of how she was kidnapped by torture execution loving hillibillies and how she killed them all and escaped.

The move gets to the climax where she’s trapped with no way out and the villain walks away laughing.

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And then it cuts to the present and the cop is like I don’t believe you and walks out and then the medical officer tells him it’s true and he looks shocked and the credits roll.

So the film doesn’t show how the MC escapes from the impossible escape situation, kills the villain and gets away. My friend is like that’s fine, it leaves it to your imagination.
And I’m like imagination of how they ran out of budget and couldn’t film the ending more like it.

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« Reply #36760 on: September 02, 2019, 04:12:10 AM »
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/joker-reactions-joaquin-phoenix-reviews-1202170199/

"Incel Origin Story"
given the joker just makes up his origin on a whim, the sequel can be him as an absolute chad and played by the rock. everyone's happy!

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« Reply #36761 on: September 02, 2019, 10:31:55 AM »
Watching Abel Ferrara's 'The Addiction' and I fucking love it. It's pretentious in the best way. The sort of pretention that allows you to selfreflect in part and gather something from it. Wrapped in the black and white neo-noir vampire scenario, which is just straight up crack for me. Plus the dialog borders on beautiful at points, although you have to wade through some edgelordy stuff which mirrors the act of writing poetry unfiltered.

There are also some gorgeous cinematic shots along with some great mood. Black and White and blood lust will always be a match made in heaven

While beautiful, my main takeway from it was that philosophy majors suck.

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« Reply #36762 on: September 02, 2019, 11:52:05 AM »
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/joker-reactions-joaquin-phoenix-reviews-1202170199/

"Incel Origin Story"
given the joker just makes up his origin on a whim, the sequel can be him as an absolute chad and played by the rock. everyone's happy!

The Joker fucks.

Get out of her with this joker incel business.

There are three jokers, every single one of them fucks like mad.
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« Reply #36764 on: September 03, 2019, 02:12:20 PM »
Saw XX, was almost as solid horror anthology film until the last antichrist film which is long and boring af. The adaptation of Jack Ketchum's The Box was pretty good, the birthday one was worth a watch if only for the alternate title credits in the end, the camping one was generic but fine, but last one sucked.

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« Reply #36765 on: September 03, 2019, 02:15:58 PM »


tl;dr it's going to be like Batman: The Long Halloween.

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« Reply #36766 on: September 03, 2019, 02:20:50 PM »


tl;dr it's going to be like Batman: The Long Halloween.

Neat.

We're getting a two-part animated adaptation probably the same year. :lol

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« Reply #36767 on: September 03, 2019, 04:48:20 PM »
Was supposed to watch The Velocipastor at a movie watching party this weekend but the host is veto-ing it because it “looks stupid, let’s just watch Saw”  :maf  :maf  :maf

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« Reply #36768 on: September 03, 2019, 05:03:29 PM »
A lot of pieces of Long Halloween were already in Begins.  Might not feel that fresh.   
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« Reply #36769 on: September 03, 2019, 06:29:16 PM »
A lot of pieces of Long Halloween were already in Begins.  Might not feel that fresh.   

TDK is more TLH than BB, BB is more Year One. But neither movie really adapts much straight from the comics, I think it could be pretty fresh. It's not like they're rehashing an origin story everyone knows, just some specific tropes and possibly beats from the story.

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« Reply #36770 on: September 03, 2019, 06:51:44 PM »
Uh, I read the long Halloween and it didn’t seem anything like any of the Batman movies.

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« Reply #36771 on: September 03, 2019, 07:02:31 PM »
Ya, TDK as well.  Ok maybe its been a long time but isn't LH basically Batman going after the mob which creates a power vacuum, allowing masked villains to take their place. 
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« Reply #36772 on: September 03, 2019, 07:26:58 PM »
Uh, I read the long Halloween and it didn’t seem anything like any of the Batman movies.

Harvey's arc and interactions with Batman and Gordon in TDK are ripped straight from TLH. My memory is fuzzy too, however.

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« Reply #36773 on: September 03, 2019, 07:40:08 PM »
Uh, I read the long Halloween and it didn’t seem anything like any of the Batman movies.

Harvey's arc and interactions with Batman and Gordon in TDK are ripped straight from TLH. My memory is fuzzy too, however.

But if I remember right there's like a dozen villians in TLH and Harvey was just one bit of it. I think a TLH movie would certainly feel pretty fresh for a Batman movie.

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« Reply #36774 on: September 03, 2019, 07:50:35 PM »
Right, like I said:

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But neither movie really adapts much straight from the comics, I think it could be pretty fresh.

However, Goyer can be very plain about which works he references, and it so happens The Long Halloween was the primary comics source for The Dark Knight's screenplay.

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« Reply #36775 on: September 03, 2019, 08:05:54 PM »
The ironic thing is I think the most striking and memorable part of The Long Halloween is the art & general noir style which is the one thing that doesn't translate into using it for a film unless they make it a straight out noir film. If they do that with the new one that would definitely be cool, but I feel like Hollywood isn't ready to fund a big budget noir film anymore. Blade Runner 2049 is probably the closest thing to that.

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Re: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread
« Reply #36776 on: September 03, 2019, 08:13:12 PM »
Yeah, it's basically Batman noir wrapped around a solid mystery core and well-written character arcs. I could easily see a new live action movie taking some or all of those elements and running with them depending on the director.

To be fair to the Hollywood system I always seem to be shitting on lately, because superhero comics have been popular for so long the studios are getting pretty weird with them again. An R-rated Joker origin movie? Are you kidding me? ...and it's good?!

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Re: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread
« Reply #36777 on: September 03, 2019, 09:21:01 PM »
I hope they have a scene where Bruce goes to the movies with his parents but someone shoots his parents in an alley

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Re: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread
« Reply #36778 on: September 03, 2019, 09:38:36 PM »
I hope they have a scene where Bruce goes to the movies with his parents but someone shoots his parents in an alley

They went to see The Joker and got shot by an angry incel.
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Re: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread
« Reply #36779 on: September 03, 2019, 11:07:43 PM »
Uh, I read the long Halloween and it didn’t seem anything like any of the Batman movies.

Harvey's arc and interactions with Batman and Gordon in TDK are ripped straight from TLH. My memory is fuzzy too, however.

Let's not pretend Christopher Nolan's Batman in Name Only had remotely anything pulled from the comics other than guy in suit beats people up.
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